DBMS > BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2015

2005

1991

2018

2014

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

5.7

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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